#0783 · 🐦 birds
White-throated Dipper
🇳🇱 Waterspreeuw ·Cinclus cinclus
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The white-throated dipper ( Cinclus cinclus ), also known as the European dipper or just dipper , is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The species is divided into several subspecies, based primarily on colour differences, particularly of the pectoral band. The white-throated dipper is Norway's national bird. In North America it is often referred to as the water ouzel.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 18,730 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-throated Dipper
- Nederlands
- Waterspreeuw
- scientific name
- Cinclus cinclus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Cinclidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 33
- sightings in Europe
- 15,004
- sightings worldwide
- 18,730
- GBIF records in NL
- 12,561
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7647, Wikidata Q201831, GBIF 2495093, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.